[Sca-cooks] Exotic but Tasty?

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 06:34 PM 11/6/2004, you wrote:

>--- Daniel  Phelps <phelpsd at gate.net> wrote:
>
> > Ah yes the Nutria Rat.  I suspect that is the
> > critter you are referencing.
> > This beast is something of a scourge/mix
> > blessing in Louisiana and has
> > indeed, by those who should have know better,
> > been introduced on to the
> > eastern seaboard with predictable destructive
> > effect on the marsh/estuaries
> > of the region.
> >
> > Daniel
>
>Don't the gators keep the nutria population
>down?  I would have thought that gators would
>find them tasty.  Of course, well fed gators
>tend to breed and become a problem themselves.

Yeah, them Oregon gators jes' love nutria! And beavers, and house cats, and 
small children... only problem of course is the rain is a bit cold for 
them, so they hang out in the sewers and wait for drunken frat boys to 
wander by...

Oh. Wait. In Louisiana.

Never mind. ;-)

'Lainie
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